by BBG

With members of Deadsea and Teeth of The Hydra amongst their ranks, you'd think that Columbus, Ohio quartet Eye would be on a quest for riff-supremacy. In fact, Eye is more concerned with the spacey moments of Pink Floyd, Yes, King Crimson and heavy psychedelia on their new LP Center of the Sun. The LP is due via Kemado Records Tuesday (4/3) and you can stream the new song "Rik Rate" from that LP below. Order your copy.

The band will celebrate the release at a show at Grand Victory on April 7th. Tickets are on sale for the show that includes appearances from Chron Turbine and Gentlemen.

Check out the stream of "Rik Rate" below.

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DOWNLOAD: Oberhofer - "Gotta Go" (MP3)

photos by Bryan Bruchman

A Les Savy Fav show is a parade of ridiculousity mixed in with taut post-hardcore/punk. They're the perfect mix of seriously good band and seriously fun - a perfect band to have playing on the occasion of a four-year anniversary celebration. Brooklyn venue Music Hall of Williamsburg blew out the candles on four years last night (9/6) with the sometimes-scantily-clad-but-always-zany antics of LSF vocalist Tim Harrington, whose band headlined the rainy evening with cheery Brooklyn band Oberhofer and opener Chron Turbine. Pictures from the show are in this post.

The show was one of only two US dates scheduled for LSF in 2011 (10/7 in DC is the other), and one of only three total shows scheduled for LSF if you include their upcoming appearance/curatorial duties at ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas in Minehead in December (featuring the return of Hot Snakes and Bitch Magnet, along with appearances from Battles, Sun Ra Arkestra and many esteemed others).

For Oberhofer, their appearance at MHOW was the second in the past few weeks including their appearance at the Spotify show at Mercury Lounge on August 25th with The Suzan and Exitmusic. Oberhofer recently dropped a new song "Gotta Go" due on their upcoming debut full-length for Glassnote (who, after a long label bidding war, Oberhofer recently announced they signed to). Download it above.

More pictures from the show below...

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Blood Orange @ PS1 on 8/20 (more by Erez Avissar)

One of the many casualties of Irene was the free Spotify-sponsored CANT/Blood Orange show that was supposed to happen at Mercury Lounge on Sunday. Luckily that show had no trouble rescheduling and will now take place this Tuesday, August 30th. Doors for the free late-night show are at 11:30pm. Expect CANT to hit the stage around 1am. As previously mentioned, this will be CANT (aka Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear)'s NYC live debut.

CANT's debut record, Dreams Come True, is out on September 13th on Chris's own Terrible Records. You can listen to two songs, "Answer" and "Believe", now on Spotify.

The last free Spotify show featured The Suzan, Exitmusic and a headlining set by Oberhofer who, in addition to having a bunch of songs streaming on Spotify, also made a Spotify playlist that you can listen to if you have the application.

Oberhofer's next NYC appearance has also been announced. Catch them opening for Les Savy Fav, along with Chron Turbine, at Music Hall of Williamsburg on Tuesday, September 6th. Tickets are still on sale.

You can also catch CANT at Music Hall of Williamsburg, but only DJing, on September 13th. CANT and Blood Orange head out on a tour in October that hits Bowery Ballroom on October 25th.

Speaking of Exitmusic, they have a new video for "The Hours" which you can watch below...

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DOWNLOAD: The Diamond Center - Dos Fridas (MP3)

Fielded's Coco66 show on Saturday also features sets from The Phantom Family Halo, Chron Turbine, and Richmond pscyhe band The Diamond Center who are currently on tour and play Deep Heaven Now 3 in Somerville, MA tonight/Friday, and Austin Psych Fest at the end of the month. All dates are listed below.

Grab the "Dos Fridas" MP3 above. Fans of the band might recognize the song from their 2009 self-released album My Only Companion, but this is a re-recorded version (recorded at Richmond Black Iris studios). The Diamond Center are about to release a new 7", Caraway / 20Twin, via somedaythiswillallmakesense. Stream that in full below, with a bunch of other songs/videos and all dates and some flyers...

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